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    Cooltek Timaios vs Antec One Hundred vs Zalman Z9

    Hello, I need a new case for my rig and , in my country , I found these options acceptable within my price range. My CPU cooler is a Deepcool Ice Wind Pro 157mm high and 140mm wide, positioned with a horizontal air flow. The Timaios is cheaper, 4 vents , fan controller. The other two have only...
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    HDD start getting errors.

    Hey you know what, I've entered Windows with the healthy dimm . I had a couple of torrents stuck in tons on hashfails. They all finished with no hashfails (they were stuck at 99,9%). Guess the problem is solved. Can I do anything to test also the motherboard itself?
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    HDD start getting errors.

    Just two out of four. I've noticed that only one of the two sticks has problems. I'll try to see if errors pop out on daily use with only the healthy stick . If they don't, I guess it's from the memory only - non HDD related.
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    HDD start getting errors.

    I didn't OC nothing yet. Just bought these components this week. Haven't had time for OC, plus I would not start on it with the stock cooler on the Phenom 965BE ; it sounds like a freakin' jet boeing in full load.
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    HDD start getting errors.

    wow Thanks for the answers, helped me a lot . I've ran about everything I could for the HDD and no problems were found. But then I went to memtest. Damn, over 200000 errors in 1 run . The things is , the sticks are brand new. Is it definetely something wrong with the memory, or can it be...
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    HDD start getting errors.

    Hey guys., I'm kind of lost here. My HDD, a four-year old Western Digital Caviar Black 640 gigs, SATA 2, and in the last days, I started getting checksum errors, and various read errors. I haven`t had problems with it until about now. I bought new parts to my PC, a ASRock 970 Pro 3, an AMD...
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